U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to speak during his appearance at the University of Chapel Hill on April 24, 2012 in Chapel Hill, North, Carolina. The President delivered remarks as part of a effort to get Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.

President Barack Obama waves after speaking at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Tuesday, April 24, 2012.

“College education is one of the best investments America can make for our future,” Obama told a crowd of about 8,000 in Chapel Hill. “This is important for all of us. We can’t price most Americans out of a college education. We can’t make higher education a luxury. It’s an economic imperative. Every American should be able to afford it. So that’s why I’m here.”

According to the White House, 166,693 students in Colorado have Stafford loans; the lower interest rates saves approximately $961 per borrower each year.

On Monday, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican opponent for Obama in November’s presidential election, said he was also in favor of maintaining the lower interest rate. Even so, that didn’t stop some of his backers from speaking out against the president even before Air Force One landed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora this afternoon.

“He failed them because we have the highest level of unemployment for youth in this country in recorded history,” Brown said. “I predict that the president will have substantially less support among college students this election compared to four years ago.”

Four years after generating the largest youth vote turnout in history, somewhere between 22 and 24 million people between the ages of 18-29 voted in 2008, the Obama re-election campaign finds itself trying to recapture that magic for the November election.

On Monday, White House officials told the Washington Post that a key goal of the president’s re-election effort is to register as many new young voters — those between the ages of 18 and 21 who were too young to vote in 2008 — as they can.

After his speech at the Coors Event Center, the president will stay in Denver overnight and visit the University of Iowa on Wednesday.

A customer dining at Washington’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.”

Three fundraising giants decided to pull events from President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, signaling a direct blowback to his business empire from his comments on Charlottesville’s racial unrest.